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Maybe my NY music culture chops isn't so great, but how I heard it David Bowie and Andy Warhol had to drag Lou kicking into the limelight.
by nonrandomstring 3y ago
Maybe my NY music culture chops isn't so great, but how I heard it
David Bowie and Andy Warhol had to drag Lou kicking into the limelight.
- InSteady 3y agoA recent documentary has many people around him, including his sister who he was close with, stating that he was very much motivated by and obsessed with fame. He desperately wanted to be much bigger than he ever got. This is part of the tension that lead to Lou kicking John Cale out (experimental rhythms and screeching viola were never going to take them to the heights of rock and roll stardom) and eventual breakup of the band. If anything, I could see Bowie and Warhol dragging Lou into the smoky, off-color limelight of the underground and alternative arts scene, away from the pop stardom he was fixated on. He certainly left Warhol behind abruptly and unceremoniously when he felt he was being pinned down. Immediately after was when the Underground produced their most poppy, mass appeal songs like Rock and Roll, Sweet Jane, Who Loves the Sun, and Oh! Sweet Nothin' (some of my personal favorites).